Rating 3.5 - One of the best translated recent works I have read recently, You Should Have Left was creepy in a very subdued way. The actions that move us towards the end of the story are not rushed and allow the reader to resonate in the quiet, desperate reality that is building around our narrator who is also the main character. A screenwriter and his family take a little excursion to a secluded house in the mountains so that he can work on his writing, which he has been struggling with. What we find quickly on is that he is struggling with aspects of his marriage as well. His paranoia builds throughout creating this atmosphere of internal panic that feeds into a growing anxiety surrounding the narrators work, wife, and their vacation rental. What I did not like about this was obviously the length, the world building even the aspect of the house itself seemed very two dimensional at times and I think that was a result of it being such a short story. For readers like me that easily predict endings, world building that allows us to really create a substantial picture in our heads is important, the meat and potatoes of the story, if you will. The characters were the main focus here, but I think if we were able to get a little less about the story he was writing and more imagery set around and in the house then I think this book would have been a home run for me and as a result would have gotten 5 stars. That said it is still a great, creepy novella for the spookiest month of the year.